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This Week In News:
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Huawei Nexus Rumors: According to Evleaks, the Huawei version of the next Nexus will come with a 5.7 inch screen, Snapdragon 820, a USB-C port, and a fingerprint reader, all encased in a metal body. Release is expected in Q4 2015, and would fit the release schedule of previous iterations. Again - it’s all speculation at this point, but more information should be surfacing before too long. Read the tweet here.
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Samsung Note 5, S6 edge+ Coming Soon: Sammobile.com claims to have inside knowledge about the two upcoming Samsung releases: the Note 5 and S6 edge+ is to go public on August 12, and be ready for sale on August 21. The Note 5 is not expected to feature an SD slot, but will have 4GB of RAM, and in terms of looks, seems to be a larger version of the S6. The stylus has apparently been tweaked to more closely resemble an actual pen this time, and will match colour of your phone. As for the edge+, it is, well, a phablet version of the S6 edge. There doesn’t appear to be much else added on. Additionally, the launch of the two devices is said to coincide with the US launch of Samsung Pay. You can read more here.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Announced To Mixed Reactions: Two screen sizes, 8 or 9.7 inches. 4:3 aspect ratio. 5870 mAh battery for the larger version, a meagre 4000 mAh for the smaller. Price? €569 for the LTE version of the 9.7inch. Overall, underwhelming is the word that springs to mind, and it seems like Samsung missed the mark this time. You can read more here.
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Android M: Demo Mode: The “demo mode” feature of Android M means that - finally - you won’t have to lose your marbles because of a screenshot taken with 3% battery left and roughly three million icons in the notification bar. When enabled, it hides any notifications, shows battery, cell coverage and wifi bars as full, and sets the time to 5:20 (a hint at the Android version number of M?) You can read more here.
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Sony Z2, Z3 To Get 5.1.1 This Month: Confirmation arrived last week that both the Z2 and Z3 would have the 5.1.1 update start rolling out later this months. In the past, these types of promises from Sony has been fairly accurate, so you should be seeing it soon. Read more here.
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HTC M8 To Get Android M: An HTC executive has confirmed on twitter that the M8 will be updated to M. Previously the M9 and M9+ had been confirmed, with a promise that “more devices” would follow. While the statement doesn’t exactly constitute a massive revelation, it’s always nice to be certain. Read more here!
This Week In Apps:
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Pushbullet Gets Full SMS-Threads On PC, Chrome: A minor update, but a massive improvement for some: you can now (finally) access full sms-threads using Pushbullet’s PC client, or the Chrome plug-in. If you’ve been living in a cave for the past year and haven’t grabbed it yet, you can do so here.
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Moonshine Icon Pack Goes Open Source: Rather than simply abandoning a much-loved icon pack, Valiant Pixel’s have opted to make it open source, in order to be able to move on to new projects. Simply put: you’re free to use their work and continue to build on it in the future, as long as credit is given where credit is due. You can read the official statement here.
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Inbox Improves Snooze Feature: As of last week, Inbox’s snooze feature got smarter: when you snooze an email with a time and a date, there’s a new preset option to remind you one hour before the event, as well as the option to set the reminder manually. You can read the official blog post here.
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Hyperlapse Out Of Beta: Hyperlapse, Microsoft’s timelapse app, has moved out of beta and into full release. The app allows you to (you guessed it) create a hyperlapse of a video, sped up anywhere between, well, not at all, and x32. The interesting thing here is their image stabilization which does a really good job of smoothing out the video. You can read slightly more here.
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Snapchat Update Eats Battery: Okay, fine, it doesn’t literally eat your battery. However, in an update pushed out this week, an alarming amount of users have been reporting that their battery suddenly drained much faster than normal, and peaked at temperatures that would make even the M9 seem cool.sorry It should be noted that it does not appear to affect all phones - but nonetheless, it should not be happening at all. This is not the first time a Snapchat update is pushed with a massive bug. You can read more here.
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That’s it for this week. In these features, we cover news from Saturday to Saturday. In case you missed last week’s summary, you can find it here. As you guys know, there are a lot of Android news every week - and more than we can fit here - but we hope this roundup was useful for many of you!
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